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    Gangs of Glasgow: True Crime From the Streets
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    Gangs of Glasgow: True Crime From the Streets

    By Robert Jeffrey

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    In the twenty-first century, Glasgow is still a city living down a fearsome reputation for crime. And for some citizens of the Dear Green Place, brawling is in the blood and gang warfare is a way of life. The stinking deprivation of the Gorbals and the East End, deprivation that helped spawn pre-war gangs like the Billy Boys, the Norman Conks and the Redskins, is largely gone, but in each era new gangs have risen to take their place. Battles over turf and control of the drugs trade still regularly make the headlines. Now newly updated, Gangs of Glasgow takes an in-depth look at the gripping evolution of the city's gangs from the days of the Penny Mob, through the extortion, slashings and street fighting of the Thirties to the smart-suited men of violence of the modern day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack & White Publishing
    Release dateJul 19, 2008
    ISBN9781845025687
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    Gangs of Glasgow: True Crime From the Streets
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    Robert Jeffrey

    Robert Jeffrey is a long-serving Glasgow journalist and the former managing editor of the Herald group of newspapers. His many best-sellers include Glasgow’s Hard Men, Blood on the Streets, Glasgow's Godfather and Crimes Past.

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